Saturday, March 27, 2010

NBSA Beginners Free Throw Guide

Even if I wasn’t a founding member of the National Basketball Shooters Association, I’d still be amazed at the poor free throw shooting percentages being posted by teams at all levels.


Since perfecting any skill in basketball needs to begin with beginners, we need to look at who is teaching children and what is being taught about shooting free throws. Heck, if college coaches can’t get the job done, how can we expect a youth coach, who may never have even played the game, to understand how to teach the fundamentals of the game, much less teach the fundamentals of free throw shooting?


Recently, I teamed with a couple of free throw experts in the NBSA to put together a simplified, and hopefully easily understood, version of how to begin to teach free throws. The 7 steps we came up with are a guide to be able to begin teaching good free throw fundamentals.


7 Steps For Getting Started

On The Path Toward Free Throw Mastery

By Ronn Wyckoff,

with

Dr. Jim Poteet and Jim “Makevery” Schatz


To read this article, go to http://www.top-basketball-coaching.com/7Steps.

Until next month,

Yours in Sport & Spirit,
Coach Ronn